Statistics for Name Origins of U.S. State Capitals

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Origin	Capital	% Correct
French, meaning "red stick"	Baton Rouge	94%
Hawaiian, meaning "sheltered harbor" or "calm port"	Honolulu	92%
Mythical beast reborn from the ashes	Phoenix	89%
Fourth president	Madison	84%
Abbreviation of "Atlantica-Pacifica"	Atlanta	82%
Third president	Jefferson City	82%
Spanish, meaning "holy faith"	Santa Fe	79%
Sixteenth president	Lincoln	77%
Iron Chancellor of Germany	Bismarck	76%
Largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere	Salt Lake City	76%
Italian explorer and colonizer (ends in s)	Columbus	75%
One of Jesus' apostles	St. Paul	75%
French, meaning "monks"	Des Moines	73%
Name of the state combined with the Greek word for city	Indianapolis	72%
City in southern France	Montpelier	72%
English, meaning "God's protective care"	Providence	72%
Coastal town in southeastern England	Dover	70%
Italian explorer and colonizer (ends in a)	Columbia	66%
Hebrew, meaning "peace"	Salem	66%
English, meaning "harmony"	Concord	61%
General who won the Battle of New Orleans	Jackson	54%
Frontiersman and dime novel subject	Carson City	50%
Rock formation along the river that runs through the city	Little Rock	50%
Great Plains American Indian tribe	Cheyenne	46%
Queen of Great Britain	Annapolis	45%
St. Louis fur trader of French descent	Pierre	45%
English writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer	Raleigh	43%
Kansa-Osage, meaning "good place to dig potatoes"	Topeka	42%
French, meaning "woods" or "wooded"	Boise	40%
Choctaw, meaning "red people"	Oklahoma City	39%
Reference to the Catholic Eucharist	Sacramento	36%
City in western Massachusetts	Springfield	36%
Canadian miner and gold prospector	Juneau	34%
Nearby mountain range	Olympia	29%
Port town in eastern England	Boston	26%
Former governor of the Kansas Territory	Denver	26%
English town that is now a southwestern suburb of London	Richmond	25%
Daughter of U.S. Secretary of War Henry Dearborn	Augusta	23%
Muskogean, meaning "old fields" or "old town"	Tallahassee	23%
Secretary of State for the state before it was a state	Austin	21%
English trader and city founder	Harrisburg	19%
English town a little ways north of London	Hartford	19%
Duke who would become King of England, Scotland, and Ireland	Albany	18%
Revolutionary war general who led the failed invasion of Canada	Montgomery	18%
Pioneer who was killed in the area	Frankfort	13%
Father of the colonel who built the first permanent settlement	Charleston	12%
Either a township in Minnesota or a town in Arkansas	Helena	12%
Town in central New York	Lansing	12%
Revolutionary war general killed in the Battle of Germantown	Nashville	9%
Prominent merchant and landowner in the area	Trenton	9%